¡Showing Off En Español!

My Spanish professor has assigned two essays for us to write in simple past tense (the Preterito). One about what we did last weekend and one about what we ate on one of those days. Finally, with strained eyes, a sweat-stained Spanish-English dictionary and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in both hands from thumbing back and forth between my Spanish books and my notes, I’ve got just one of those essays in a state that I think is passable Spanish. It’s only taken me about three hours. Listen, nothing gets written for that long that doesn’t go up on the blog. So here it is in all its glory. Or infamy. So here’s a short exciting essay about what I ate yesterday, which incidentally was my birthday. Spanish speakers are invited NOT to laugh.

About The Author

Although I'd like to think of myself as a rootin', tootin', wine-makin' cowgirl, I currently only live in Sonoma part-time. Mostly I'm on freeways between San Jose and Sonoma. With two yapping terriers in crates behind me. We try to enjoy both places and points in between. Which will explain why my post subjects are all over the map.

The tomato jam recipe will make another appearance once I start perfecting the recipe when tomatoes are in season. It’s the recipe I’m hoping will win me a blue ribbon at the Sonoma County fair. As for the lavender creme brulee, that’s from The Girl & The Fig. I have their cookbook and I’ll have to see if it has the recipe. I normally wouldn’t go to that chapter as I don’t do desserts.

KathyB
on April 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM

Bravissima! Sorry, Italian came to mind. I’ve forgotten almost all vocabulario espanol (and the keyboard trick to put a tilde in there). I can still read a bit of Spanish and enjoyed trying to read your essay. And of course the pictures are fabulous.

You share a birthday with my favorite now three year old little son of a Marine family. They currently live in Quantico.